God will so tailor the events of our lives so that all roads will lead to Him. What happens is we become so use to depending on our resources until we fail to rely on our source. So what he will do is allow our brooks to run dry in order to refocus our attention back toward Him. He did for Abraham when he required the very life of his son Isaac; He did it for Moses, after he murdered an Egyptian and had to flee for his lifehiding on the backside of a mountain. He did it for David, just after he was anointed king and he finds himself on the run from King Saul and ends up hiding in a cave in Adullam with a few hundred dysfunctional potential giant killers. He did it for the prophet Elijah, as he was escorted by God Himself eastward to Cherith where he would be provided for with flesh and water from the brook only to have thebrook run dry. And Hes done the same for me, so walk with me if you will on this journey as we discover and unfold how to handle our seasons of drought.
Walk in Dry Places is a daily reader for those who seek simplicity and assuredness in their Twelve Step program. Recovery doesn’t settle at physical or emotional sobriety. Rather, it aims to grow in honesty and intention each day. This meditation book, complementary to any addiction recovery, simplifies our daily self-improvement with thought- and action-provoking meditations. Nowadays, there are medications, therapy-based activities, and mindfulness exercises. Undoubtedly, these are helpful new tools and coping skills. For people in recovery from alcoholism or drug addiction, though, the best medicines are still good action and honesty. Addiction treatment, counseling, therapy, and working a program give a good start. For continued results, though, a recovering person must act thoughtfully and truthfully each day. With many years in the program, respected recovery writer Mel B. simplifies our daily engagements with straightforward and insightful advice. Packed with experiential meditations and prayers, Walk in Dry Places ensures continued growth in spirit. It teaches us to extend ourselves into the real world and improve the lives of others—not just our own. Through guided thought and action, we elevate the principles and people that are truly important in our recovery, and turn the rest over to a Higher Power.
Landscape is the space of negotiation between human beings and the physical world, and rarely are the negotiations more complex and subtle than those conducted through the desert landscape along the Mexico-U.S. border. Patricia L. Price views the shaping of the landscape on and around the border through various narratives that have sought to establish claims to these dry lands. Most prominent are the accounts of Anglo-American expansionism and Manifest Destiny juxtaposed with the Chicano nationalist tale of Aztlan in the twentieth century, all constituting collective, contending claims to the U.S. Southwest. Demonstrating how stories can become vehicles for reshaping places and identities, Price considers characters old and new who inhabit the contemporary borderlands between Mexico and the United States-ranging from longstanding manifestations of good and evil in the figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Devil to a collection of lay saints embodying current concerns. Dry Place weaves together theoretical insights with field-based inquiry, autobiography, and creative writing to arrive at a textured understanding of the bordered landscape of late modern subjectivity. Patricia L. Price is associate professor of geography in the Department of International Relations at Florida International University in Miami.
Water is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people we meet in Dry--those who live in the dry lands of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas, eking out an existence at once remarkable and mundane between craggy mountains, near oases, or close to well-springs surrounded by cracked earth or shifting sands. From the ingenuity of the highland people of Chile's Atacama desert who use giant nets to capture water from clouds of fog, to the ancient wisdom that protects the grazing lands of Kenya's Masai, this beautifully illustrated book tells the diverse stories about people in very hot, very cold, or very high places, who spend their lives collecting, chasing, piping, and trapping the water that life requires--all the while taking great care that no form of life, plant or animal, benefits at the expense of another. In a world of finite resources, where the struggle for shrinking sources of water intensifies daily, these stories--collected over three years by photographers, writers, and scientists from four continents--are a source of hope and wonder. This book contains a wealth of information and images designed to further awareness of the vast array of life that is carried on precariously yet proudly on the earth's dryest lands.
A Tall Glass of Water is a useful tool for any woman who can admit that she needs help putting her life into balance. Water is vital to sustaining human life. It plays a major role in our physical body's respiration, digestion, elimination, metabolism and homeostasis -- which is basically the balance of all the major systems. Without adequate amounts of water, dehydration begins and can be life-threatening. Gail Crowder offers practical tips to rehydrate those dry places that have shown up in your life because your energy is drained and your creativity has dried up while attempting to be 'everything to everybody all the time'. In A Tall Glass of Water, she acknowledges that the task of wearing multiple hats simultaneously can be very overwhelming for a woman. After sipping, gulping and sometimes choking on her own glass of water during her own life's journey trying to be the consummate wife, mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, employee and entrepreneur, Gail offers principles that have been proven to succeed. Are you dizzy from the dehydration due to the pressures pushing and pulling you in all directions? Be honest with yourself ......are you overwhelmed? Do you wish for more hours in the day? If so, immerse yourself in the pages of this book, soak up the theory and principles, and your refreshing will begin......Gail generously pours out the best practices for setting your life into balance. Drink at your own pace. Feeling a little thirsty? Remember......................... nothing quenches thirst like A Tall Glass of Water.
Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human induced climate change, the desperate plight of the system of waterways has become an international phenomenon, a symbol of the unsustainable ways we relate to water globally. The Murray-Darling Basin extends west of the Great Dividing Range that separates the densely populated east coast of Australia from the sparsely populated inland. Aboriginal peoples continue to inhabit the waterways of the great artesian basin and pass on their cultural stories and practices of water, albeit in changing forms. A key question informing the book is: What can we learn about water from the oldest continuing culture inhabiting the world’s driest continent? In the process of responding to this question a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers formed to work together in a contact zone of cultural difference within an emergent arts-based ethnography. Photo essays of the artworks and their landscapes offer a visual accompaniment to the text on the Routledge Innovative Ethnography Series website, http://www.innovativeethnographies.net/. This book is perfect for courses in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and qualitative methods.
This is the second book in the "HELP" (Hope, Empowerment, Love, Prayer) Series. It is a journey through every day living that confronts and validates the emotions aroused by disappointments, insecurities, impatience, major setbacks, failed relationships, frustrated aspirations and feelings of helplessness about present circumstances. Often, life can cause many people to feel less than inspired and optimistic about the future. Bouts of disillusionment and periods of difficulty cause folks to question life and immediately transport them to what this author calls, "DRY PLACES." Is there any hope? Can anyone help? Is there any benefit from our negative experiences? Yes! GOD will help you Get Out Of The "DRY PLACES!" The first section of the book is entitled Praying Time because prayer is the very first tactic of powerful, resourceful people living in the favor of GOD. The greatest weapon believers own is the ability to employ faith-laced, fervent and continuous prayer. There is nothing too great, too enormous, or too terrible for prayer. There is also nothing too dreadful, distressing, awkward, embarrassing, shocking, appalling and too insignificant to take to our GOD. If it concerns the reader, it concerns GOD. The second section of the book entitled Press On tackles the issues of waiting, serving while leading, aging and employing the HOLY SPIRIT. Readers should press their way determinedly through whatever they face, refusing to set up camp in the "DRY PLACES." Scripture reminds us that neither power nor might wins our victories; rather it is by the HOLY SPIRIT. GOD gave us the gift of HIS HOLY SPIRIT who is our advocate and defender. We must never allow anything to keep us from seeking GOD. Whenever we feel faint and want to give up, that is the time to press and put forth extreme effort to keep going. In our weakness, GOD'S strength is perfect. The final section entitled Praise Worthy is designed to inspire the use of praise for the reader´s positive transformation. Praise is learning to speak the goodness of the LORD no matter what happens. Although praising GOD expresses love and releases great joy and peace, praise is also a powerful weapon in spiritual warfare. The secret about spiritual warfare is that the battle is not ours but belongs to GOD! The truth is when we praise GOD, HIS presence shows up in a mighty way. This sends the enemy running with his imps cowardly scampering behind him. GOD is omnipotent! HE is all-powerful. HE is the Supreme Being that is greater than any force anywhere. Take a PRAISE BREAK! Get Out Of The "DRY PLACES" and look forward to the future!
This book is about the main lessons to be learnt from new approaches to soil and water conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. It presents six case studies, two each from Burkina Faso, Kenya and Mali, where soil and water conservation, based on the participation of the local people, has resulted in some success.
Dry summer, wet winter climate? This is your must have plant guide. Selecting plants suited to your climate is the first step toward a thriving, largely self-sustaining garden that connects with and supports the natural world. With gentle and compelling text and stunning photographs of plants in garden settings, Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates by Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt is a guide to native and climate-adapted plants for summer-dry, winter-wet climates of North America's Pacific coast. Knowing what these climates share and how and why they differ, you can choose to make gardens that maintain and expand local and regional biodiversity, take little from the earth that is not returned, and welcome and accommodate the presence of wildlife. With global warming, it is now even more critical that we garden in tune with climate.
